Potty training.

What's the oldest you've known a child that's not PT whatsoever?

Personally? 3

A few months shy of 5, my cousin's son.

Quoting 1inpink2inblue:" Personally? 3"

* my friends kid. She worked 40+ hours a week and her parent watched him and had zero interest in keeping up with PT.

Just turned 5 before they even began attempting to train her (this was a girl who's older brother was on my DH's little league basketball team when he was coaching last year).

My daughter is almost 2 and she is already using the potty, all except for # 2 we just started not to long ago. So honestly its whenever you LO is willing and ready. Also you need to be willing to clean up a little pee and poo on your carpets/floors for a few day/weeks

Quoting P Pickle Pants:" Just turned 5 before they even began attempting to train her (this was a girl who's older brother was on my DH's little league basketball team when he was coaching last year)."

  my DD is a bit big for her age but when she was sick and had the runs a while ago I went and got her some pull ups just in case she had an accident while sleeping and it was about impossible to find anything in her size. And they were super expensive when I did find some. She is only 4 I couldn't imagine having her in diapers for that long.

Quoting BrooklynnAndBrystolsMom:" My daughter is almost 2 and she is already using the potty, all except for # 2 we just started not to ... [snip!] ... is willing and ready. Also you need to be willing to clean up a little pee and poo on your carpets/floors for a few day/weeks"

Oh, this isn't for me lol. My daughter will be 6 in November and has been completely PT for almost 2 years.

My neighbour's daughter will be 4 this Fall and still wears pullups during the day.

Quoting 1inpink2inblue:"   my DD is a bit big for her age but when she was sick and had the runs a while ago I went and ... [snip!] ... size. And they were super expensive when I did find some. She is only 4 I couldn't imagine having her in diapers for that long."

This little girl was very thin (so was mama, so I guess that's just how they're built). When I saw her mom check her diaper I saw the tag on her shorts and they said 3T, so maybe that helped?

She was just totally rolling around on the ground like a toddler with legs flyin geverywhere in a skirt too---I'm not sure whether mom just didn't require her to ever sit still and not show her underthings (diaper or panties or whatever) or if mom had given up because she was 8 mo pregnant, but it just seemed like mom did a lot of things however was easiest.

When I realized how old she was I asked her how she got her into Kindergarten with diapers and she said "oh, I decided to home school. Potty training just takes too long when they're not ready"  

Quoting P Pickle Pants:" This little girl was very thin (so was mama, so I guess that's just how they're built). When I saw her ... [snip!] ... with diapers and she said "oh, I decided to home school. Potty training just takes too long when they're not ready"  "

So she chose to home school instead? lol Wow.

Quoting Love Wedge +1.5:" So she chose to home school instead? lol Wow."

She said something along the lines of if she didn't do well with home schooling she'd just start her a year late.

I wish my DH had coached agian this year to see if I coudl bump back into her and see where that went when #3 was added. Haha.

Quoting P Pickle Pants:" She said something along the lines of if she didn't do well with home schooling she'd just start her ... [snip!] ... I wish my DH had coached agian this year to see if I coudl bump back into her and see where that went when #3 was added. Haha."

My mom's cousin has home schooled all 6 or 7 of her children  

They have 5 or 6 of their own, all girls, and then adopted the wife's cousin's son because his mother is schizophrenic. He's 6 now.

I give that woman all my props. I could not imagine taking on that much.

Quoting Love Wedge +1.5:" My mom's cousin has home schooled all 6 or 7 of her children   They have 5 or 6 of their own, ... [snip!] ... son because his mother is schizophrenic. He's 6 now. I give that woman all my props. I could not imagine taking on that much."

I'm otherwise pretty crunchy-granola on things, so everyone is shocked that I'm nto going to homeschool my son (I do enough teaching without doing ALL of it!) and I was like OH HELL NO!!! I want to go to the gym and take a piss and shower BY MYSELF and maybe, just maybe, sneak in a lunchtime quickie with my husband while the runt is at school!

Plus, I am not the smartest person ever. I don't know everything---and do NOT ask me to teach Geometry or Trig or Calc (Algebra I've got down). I might have aced all of them in school, but that was a LONG time ago. So, why not send him in to learn from other people and get socialization while I save my own sanity by getting a job (or, better yet, manage future high-risk pregnancies by NOT chasing my older kid 24/7 if I don't have to).

Yep, I'm shipping my gorgeous man off in August/Sept 2014 and I'm not gonna regret it for a minute  

Quoting P Pickle Pants:" I'm otherwise pretty crunchy-granola on things, so everyone is shocked that I'm nto going to homeschool ... [snip!] ... if I don't have to). Yep, I'm shipping my gorgeous man off in August/Sept 2014 and I'm not gonna regret it for a minute  "

LOL Yeah, I don't blame you at all.

I don't have the patience to teach children. I'm not a fan of them in the first place (my own obviously I like lol) so I can't see myself sitting with any kid for hours in my day trying to get them to learn something.

Just thanking the gods mine is starting grade 1 in a month and some change. I'll have a month, give or take, to myself before this babe comes along. Whew lol.

Quoting Love Wedge +1.5:" LOL Yeah, I don't blame you at all. I don't have the patience to teach children. I'm not a fan of them ... [snip!] ... starting grade 1 in a month and some change. I'll have a month, give or take, to myself before this babe comes along. Whew lol."

I sit and teach him things all the time. Sometimes its structured (teaching him to hold a pencil and make shapes---working up to letters. He's barely 3 now). But sometimes its unstructured. I just draw shapes, letters, numbers, colors with chalk and he names them. Mostly I teach him in fun don't-sit-in-a-classroom-type-setting learning---we learn the various dinosaurs by goign to museums, looking at bones/fossils in books, or playing with dinosaur toys, etc. We even made fossils by making salt dough and pressing dinosaurs into it and then drying it.

BUT, I think that it woudl be better for him if he learned to learn from OTHER people. And if he learned from OTHER people's creativity (I run dry on ideas now and then!), and their life experiences and expertise in certain areas, he'll get a MUCH more well rounded education if I'm supplementing it here and there with fun think-outside-the-box educational things. Why make me the primary teacher so that I feel like its a chore, when I can teach him all the fun things that go along with what he's learning in school that the teacher doesn't have the resources to teach or the time to cover!?!

Plus, I like lunchtime quickies.